TED演讲-比尔盖茨：从新冠开始终结大流行病（演讲稿）.docxVIP

曾预言大流行病的盖茨最新演讲： 新冠可能会是最后的大流行病！ （附视频演讲稿） Bill Gates We Can Make COVID-19 the Last Pandemic In the year 6 CE, a fire devastated Rome. In response, Emperor Augustus did something that had never been done before in the history of the Empire. He created a permanent team of firefighters who used buckets just like this one. Augustus understood that individuals alone cant protect themselves from fires. They need help from the community. When one persons house is on fire, that creates a risk for everyone elses homes. And so what weve had these last few years is like a horrific global fire. The COVID pandemic has killed millions and upended economies, and we want to stop that from happening again. COVID, its hard to overstate how awful its been. Its increased the health inequities between the rich and the poor. Survival depended partly on your income, your race, the neighborhood you lived in. And so we should seize this opportunity to create a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life. Also a life free from the fear of the next COVID-19. When I was on this stage in 2015, I was one of many people who said we werent ready and we needed to get ready. We didnt. The speech actually was watched by a lot of people. But 90 percent of the views were after it was too late. So now I hope the need is clear. And of course, weve learned a lot. During this pandemic, a lot of things worked well, a lot of things didnt work well. And so we have all that knowledge to build a prevention system. COVID-19 can be the last pandemic if we take the right steps. So how, what are these steps? Well, lets go back and look at what the Romans did. Think about how, over time, weve gotten good at preventing big fires. Fire prevention is kind of this pervasive thing. Its well funded. Its well understood. If an alarm went off right now, everyone here would know were supposed to calmly gather, go out and wait instructions. Wed know that help would be on the way because we have lots